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I have brickwork in my garage. I would like to build a gym in there. My main concern is what is the best way to fasten a 2x4 beam to bricks. Will be drilling a thru hole in the beam and a blind hole in the brick (not mortar) but my question is what type of fastener to use. I've seen fasteners...

Hi all, we have started renovating our house and we’ve removed a handful of existing door frames. When removing these there is a series of brick which have fallen off the wall leaving up to 100mm gap from where the opening should be . we are not installing doors or door frames but going to...

Hi all, I'm seeking some guidance on building a steel glass balustrade post fence around my patio/decking area. I've included some photos of the area in the following link: https://imgur.com/a/hen3hEJ. My questions are: Can I drill holes into the top of the bricks? What type of plugs should I...

Hi, I'm in the process of replacing an existing hedge at the front of our property with a 1.5m wall. I'll be doing the work myself and would like to have a 1 brick/225mm gap down the centre of the wall to fill with soil to grow plants out of so the wall is as deep as the 2X 2 brick wide piers...

Morning, Apologies for a potentially daft question. We have just had the outside of our house repainted and I noticed that the guys doing it hadn't painted the air bricks (I would have asked them but they had left). I was just doing to do then myself, as there are only a few low down, with...

Hi everyone, I would appreciate your thoughts on the condition of my gable end wall. The two rendered sides in the photo are solid brick with no cavity, while the middle section is a cavity wall with an inner layer of breeze blocks and an outer layer of brick. A surveyor has inspected the...

Hi, first post here so go easy ha. I am wanting to put a steel in to knock out a wall holding up first floor joists with one end of rsj resting on back of the house and the other on an internal block wall… however due to the awkward shape of the floor layout I would like to build a new block...

Anyone know if these polypropylene ties are any good? Thanks for any info.

I'm extending a lean-to garage out the front of a house. 100mm cavity wall, rendered. To maintain a standard garage door opening, there isn't much width available. Ideally I would just have the garage door meeting right up against the wall of the existing house, but it seems that a cavity...

I'm looking for some advice on a special case; my friend has a ground floor flat which has 2 bedrooms, living room, bathroom and kitchen in a terraced massionette. The upstairs is owned by someone else. His property has a long lease something like 500 years plus. He showed me round and there...

Hiya, this is an external wall in a bathroom. This is right at the top of the building just before the roof. (ignore the ducting insatlled by previous ......) Infront of this is going to be a toilet and some form cupboard/shelf, so I plan to fix some batterns onto the wall and plasterboard over...

tldr: What plaster should I use? Limelite, dryzone, breathaplasta, hardwall? I have to re-plaster the internal sides of single skin brick walls in a Victorian house. The original lime plaster had paper put over it, and had completely blown away from the wall. I've taken all the walls back to...

Have to take my bath out due to puddles in the kitchen below ;) It's a 170cm bath tightly squeezed into a v small bathroom that is pretty much 170cm long from bare brick to bare brick. (I'm actually mildly confused as to how they got it in!) Walls not plastered under the bath. Tiles around had...

I have an old window which I am getting replaced and in the process of removing some of the timber, the brickwork around the window has crumbled away. Just wondering what to fill this with? I am thinking of building a form and filling in with concrete. Does that sounds sensible or is there a...

Hi. I’m building a metal stud wall in the garage to make a utility room. I’m painting over the existing brick walls (not dry walling the whole room). My question is how do I seal the joint between the new plasterboard wall and the brick walls? They meet at a 90 degree angle. Also, the outer...

The handrail up my stairs goes up and around the corner. At the top it has come completely from the wall. There are old red bricks in the wall with plaster on top. It's a Victorian house. Is it OK to apply cement to the holes and patches, then plaster over and re fix the handrail or am I just...

Hi All, I have a low level vent close to my front door, which i think comes from where the stack drops down… at points it seems very damp, almost wet? I’m curious really as to what its actual purpose is as that level. Is it just a vent from the soil and thats it? At least thats what I think it...

Hi all, I’ve recently moved into a new build timber-framed, brick-clad house which has a small dry-laid concrete patio at the rear. During this wet summer I’ve noticed that water pools towards the house. A spirit level on the slabs confirms the same (but to which degree I’m not sure). I’ve...

Hi I’m wondering whether anyone could offer me any much needed advice. I’ve recently noticed these cracks after having ceiling plastered & coving removed. They can be seen both internally & on externally on outer edges of the lintel. (Pictured) No idea how long they have been there, looked at...

I'm currently drilling a hole through the brickwork next to my front door in order to run a doorbell cable through. I've reached the limit of my standard drill bit length and hit what feels like some kind of membrane... is this some kind of damp proofing? It's a 90's build house. Is it OK to...